The Cafe Meow co-owner Danielle Rasmussen said the cafe has found a home on Hennepin Avenue and 24th Street in Uptown. They are holding a second Kickstarter, which will launch next week, to help offset the renovations of the building, which used to be a used video game store.

The cafe, at which customers can cuddle rescue cats, will be a full-service coffee bar with pastries from My Sister’s Sweets.

The business will work with several local rescue groups to procure the cats, which will all be available for adoption.

The cafe is throwing a Kickstarter launch party from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at Bryant Square Park (3101 Bryant Ave. S., Minneapolis) in the Multipurpose Room. There will be coffee, sweets and representatives from the rescue groups the cafe is working with.

Rasmussen said the owners were originally hoping to open near the University of Minnesota so they could be a place where students who had to leave their pets at home could come cuddle a cat, but things didn’t quite work out.

“We were hoping we could be close to the university students who live in a dorm where you can’t have a pet,” she said. “But rent is crazy over there, so we ended up in Uptown.”